Eli Capilouto

When you get paid half-a-millions dollars a year to run a state institution, serving as its President with no prior experience as President of a University, you’re bound to make some mistakes. The University of Kentucky’s Half-a-Million-Dollar Man, Dr. Eli…

The Legislative Research Committee did some studyin‘ of Kentucky’s university presidents and how much they get paid. Pay increases for university presidents ranged from 5 percent to 34 percent between 2006 and 2010, according to a new report from the…

The University of Kentucky’s Board of Trustees signed off on the plan to privatize the public university’s student housing. Ms. Blackford of course has all the details, including but not limited to: EdR vice president Tom Trubiana said his company…

The Herald-Leader editorial this morning looks at student housing, in a way. Inspired by a New York Times article from last week, they call for a big vision while putting aside questions of whether the privatization plan makes real sense.…

Hot on the heels of news of Rand Paul’s upcoming trippy speech to the impressionable young minds at the University of Kentucky, it’s come to our attention Dan Savage is coming right behind him. Savage, who defined Rick Santorum’s presidential…

The Big Sunday editorial heaped praise on Mayor Gray and the Rupp Area Task Force, then called for realistic numbers in the financing phase: However, in the next step, estimates and ideas must give way to hard numbers. Here again,…

A long story in the Courier Journal over the weekend examined the significant tax revenue shortfall at Louisville’s KFC Yum! Center: The revenue needed to pay for the 15-month-old arena at Second and Main streets is falling short of expectations,…

As we mentioned yesterday, some nasty allegations were thrown at new UK President and Man of Mystery Eli Capilouto down in Alabama. Here are some more. I don’t know if UK asked him any questions about this, or if so,…